Anecdotes of Animals

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 16, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547335030

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Anecdotes of Animals

EAN 8596547335030

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Table of Contents

I

ANIMAL CONCERTS

II

A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG

III

STUDYING

IV

A GRATEFUL LIONESS

V

A REMARKABLE NEWSMAN

VI

SHARP-WITTED BRUIN

VII

MAKING SURE

VIII

THE BEAR AND THE CHILD

IX

A CLEVER CROW

X

THE POWER OF MUSIC

XI

AN AMUSING MIMIC

XII

OLD HABITS

XIII

NOBLE PERSEVERENCE

XIV

THE CAT AND THE CROWS

XV

HEROISM OF AN IRISH HEN

XVI

THE SHEPHERD'S DOG

XVII

TRAVELLERS

XVIII

FILIAL DUTY

XIX

A DOG SHEEP-STEALER

XX

A MOTHER'S AFFECTION

XXI

A STRANGE MOUSER

XXII

SABINUS AND HIS DOG

XXIII

A JUST RETALIATION

XXIV

AN ODD FAMILY

XXV

THE DOLPHIN

XXVI

A GOOD FINDER

XXVIII

REVENGE

XXVIII

MICE AS SAILORS

XXIX

DRAWING WATER

XXX

THE BROKEN HEART

XXXI

REMORSE

XXXII

A COMEDY OF ELEPHANTS

XXXIII

CUNNING AS A FOX

XXXIV

FAITHFUL THOUGH UNLOVED

XXXV

A FAITHFUL COMPANION

XXXVI

ELEPHANT ROPE DANCING

XXXVII

A PROVIDENTIAL SAFE CONDUCT

XXXVIII

THE DOG AND THE GOOSE

XXXIX

THE DEATH OF ANTIOCHUS REVENGED

XL

A NOBLE REVENGE

XLI

LONG LOST FOUND AGAIN

XLII

THE DOG OF MONTARGIS

XLIII

CRAB FISHING

XLIV

THE HORSE AND GREYHOUND

XLV

THE WATCH DOG

XLVI

THE GOAT

XLVII

FOX CHASING

XLVIII

THE RIGHTS OF HOSPITALITY

XLIX

A SLY COUPLE

L

OSTRICH RIDING

LI

RETRIBUTION

LII

AN ELEPHANT'S REVENGE

LIII

STRANGE PLAYMATES

LIV

HONORS TO THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

LV

MONKEY VERSUS SNAKE

LVI

FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH

LVII

MUSICAL SEALS

LVIII

A STRANGE FOSTER MOTHER

LIX

SONNINI AND HIS CAT

LX

THE DINNER BELL

LXI

FORAGING

LXII

THE TAME SEA GULL

LXIII

A STRANGE PROTECTOR

LXIV

THE LION AND HIS KEEPER

LXV

A USURPER PUNISHED

LXVI

STRANGE ROOKS

LXVII

TAME HARES

LXVIII

THE PIG POINTER

LXIX

A WISE OURANG-OUTANG

LXX

A GRATEFUL RETURN

LXXI

WRENS LEARNING TO SING

LXXII

RARE HONESTY

LXXIII

DIVISION OF LABOR

LXXIV

A TALKING PARROT

LXXV

A CHARITABLE CANARY

LXXVI

CHOOSING THE LEAST OF TWO EVILS

LXXVII

GOING TO MARKET

LXXVIII

THE CATCHER CAUGHT

LXXIX

SNAKE DESTROYERS

LXXX

MUSICAL MICE

LXXXI

A CARRIER'S DOG

LXXXII

A TAME COLONY

LXXXIII

THE BEAR CUBS

LXXXIV

DECEIVING THE FOWLER

LXXXV

ASKING ASSISTANCE

LXXXVI

DOG SMUGGLERS

LXXXVII

PORUS SAVED BY HIS ELEPHANT

LXXXVIII

A HUMANE SOCIETY

LXXXIX

A MOTHER WATCHING HER YOUNG

XC

A REFUGEE SQUIRREL

XCI

ESCAPE OF JENGIS KAHN

XCII

A SHREWD GUESSER

XCIII

ARE BEASTS MERE MACHINES?

XCIV

AN ASS CAST AWAY

XCV

QUARRELSOME APES

XCVI

A FALSE ALARM

XCVII

A CHILD SAVED

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ANIMAL CONCERTS

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An abbot, a man of wit, and skilled in the making of new musical instruments, was ordered by Louis XI., king of France, more in jest than earnest, to procure him a concert of swines' voices. The abbot said that the thing could doubtless be done, but it would cost a good deal of money. The king ordered that he should have as much as he required for the purpose. The abbot then contrived as strange a thing as ever was seen. Out of a great number of hogs of various ages, which he got together under a tent, or pavilion, covered with velvet, and before which he had a table of wood painted with a certain number of keys, he made an organical instrument, and as he played upon the keys with little spikes which pricked the hogs, he made them cry in such order and consonance that he highly delighted the king and all his company.

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A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG

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One of the magistrates in Harbor Grace, in Newfoundland, had an old dog of the regular web-footed species peculiar to that island, who was in the habit of carrying a lantern before his master at night, as steadily as the most attentive servant could do, stopping short when his master made a stop, and going ahead when he was ready to follow.

If his master was away from home, and the command was given Go fetch thy master, he would at once pick up the lantern, hold it fast between his teeth, and start for the town, which was more than a mile away from the home of his master. He would stop at the door of every house which he knew his master was in the habit of visiting, and laying down his lantern, growl and strike the door making all the noise in his power, until it was opened. If his master was not in the house, he would go on farther in the same way, till he found him. If he had gone with him only once to a house, this was enough to make him take in that house in his rounds.

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STUDYING

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A magpie belonging to a barber in Rome, could imitate very perfectly almost everything it heard. Some trumpets happened one day to be sounded before the shop, and for a day or two afterward the magpie was quite mute, and seemed sad and melancholy. All who knew it supposed that the sound of the trumpets had so stunned it as to rob it at once of both voice and hearing.

But this was not the case, as very soon appeared. The bird had all this time been studying how to imitate the sound of the trumpets; and when at last master of it, the magpie, to the astonishment of all its friends, suddenly broke its long silence by a perfect imitation of the flourish of trumpets it had heard; repeating with the greatest exactness all the repetitions, stops, and changes. The learning of this lesson, however, so exhausted the magpie's brain that it forgot everything it had known before.

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A GRATEFUL LIONESS

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A dreadful famine raged at Buenos Ayres, yet the governor, afraid of giving the Indians a habit of spilling Spanish blood, forbade the people, on pain of death, to go into the fields in search of food, and he placed soldiers at all outlets to the country, with orders to fire upon those who should try to disobey him.

However, a woman, called Maldonata, was artful enough to get past the watchful guards, and made her escape. After wandering about the country for